Yankees GM gives 'simple' answer to question about team keeping Juan Soto

New York Yankees wide head Brian Cashman is alert really pivotal pending statement negotiations pinch Juan Soto are going to beryllium erstwhile nan World Series is over.

The Soto acquisition was a boon for nan Yankees erstwhile they traded for him successful nan offseason pinch nan San Diego Padres. 

He deed .288 pinch 41 location runs successful nan regular play and is 11-for-33 pinch 3 location runs successful nan Yankees’ postseason tally this year.

Cashman smiled Friday nighttime earlier Game 1 of nan World Series against nan Los Angeles Dodgers erstwhile asked by Fox News Digital what it would return to bring him back.

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The New York Yankees' Juan Soto hits a location tally during nan 3rd inning successful Game 1 of nan ALCS Oct. 14, 2024, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

"A lot," he said. "Simple arsenic that."

Cashman said Soto was conscionable astir everything nan statement hoped he would be. He’s arguably nan third-best subordinate competing successful nan World Series.

"We surely hoped," he said. "We gave up a batch and, thankfully, we sewage a lot. So, hopefully, he’s sewage a small spot much successful him to go."

The Soto negotiations will beryllium nan focal constituent of nan Yankees’ offseason sloppy of nan consequence complete nan adjacent week.

The New York Yankees' Juan Soto speaks during media time earlier nan World Series against nan Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Soto, who conscionable turned 26, was asked astir free agency Friday and deferred to supplier Scott Boras.

"Scott has been doing a really bully job," Soto told The Associated Press. "He’s been taking each nan bullets and everything. I’m conscionable focused connected playing shot correct now."

He antecedently turned down a 15-year, $440 cardinal woody erstwhile he was pinch nan Washington Nationals. But that seems for illustration ages ago.

The New York Yankees' Juan Soto celebrates aft hitting a location tally against nan Cleveland Guardians during nan 3rd inning of Game 1 of nan ALCS Oct. 14, 2024, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Soto is fresh to constitute nan adjacent section of his career. It whitethorn commencement pinch a 2nd World Series ring pinch nan winningest franchise successful shot history.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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